Thursday, October 28, 2010

Look out followers!!! As you can see I have changed the colors of my blog temporally. Sunday is the big day! A friend of mine is going to help me out with a custom look! He knows all kinds of coding and I can pick his brain for a while!!!

I started out with a new header!!! Though, I need to resize it! Look out for a new GirlracerScrap coming to a desktop near you!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

I want to showcase my new sponsor, that specializes in Automotive Rubber Stamps, please take a look at Rubber Meets the Road. If you are a car crazy person or know a car crazy person these stamps are for you or them! lol! These stamps are great for Masculine cards! Check out his eBay store in my sidebar!

I used a 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback!

On that note, here is my card for Off the Wall Craftiness #30 (OTWC30)!! The color palette was Green, White and Brown.....and I added the Red Mustang!!!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Robyn over at My Pink Stamper had Karlee Visit and did a live UStream the other night!! During the Ustream she had make a card using Pink, Purple, and Green in 30mins! It didn't have to be completed in that particular 30min time span, but any 30mins! So, Sam from Sam's Scrap Candy and I decided to Skype Scrap and get it done!!! She couldn't scrap during the Live Ustream so we did it the day after! This is what I came up with!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Hi everyone!!! I wanted to make a video for you guys to show you what I won from Jenny over at Wee Memories! A while back she had a fast giveaway and it took a while to get the prizes since she got married! Congrats Jenny!

I am super nervous in this video, I will probably make more!!! I know you guys will ask for them! :-)

Specs on the video:All made on a Mac Book Pro!Recorded Video with iSightEdited in iMovieImported to YouTube from iMovie in HD!

Enjoy! Don't laugh at me too hard, even though I am here for your enjoyment! ;-)

Saturday, October 16, 2010

This card was done for Mari aka Momo of Made by Momo! She does tutorials and Ustream videos that are super easy to follow! Her fellow scrappers decided to surprise her and get all her followers to send in birthday cards and then Momo would get a huge package of cards for her birthday. I decided to participate and made her this card!

You can see Momo's reaction video here. Her reaction started to make me cry, I know I am weak!! lol!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

I have had the Cricut Imagine now for a few weeks and I wanted to give my 2 cents on the machine. So, here it goes!!!!

{ Cons }

*I have had to calibrate the machine twice so far, the outline cuts were not cutting correctly.

*I still find that images cut closer to the top of the mat cut correctly and images cut in the middle and below cut crooked. :-\ (not too happy about that)

*After peeling images of the mat, when you go to peel the rest of the paper, it always curls, and needs time to flatten out before using the scraps.

*Hard to judge the size of the images, even though you tell it 3 inches, on boarders if the images is too large on the final print out screen, it doesn't show up as an image, just a grey box. Once, you size it down it will then show the image.

*I seem to be using a lot of white paper.

* I wish it would rotate and move images around for maximum printing space.

*My Micheal's is slow at putting out their Imagine display, and I want to get more mats and back up ink!!

*The machine is LARGE and IN CHARGE!!! Make sure you have plenty of space! Remember it needs space behind and in front for the mat to slide through!!!

*The custom coloring of the layers has its defaults..you can do it on main pieces and it works fine, but you can not change the color or pattern of the (people, animals, etc...) without filling the entire image, thus resulting in a shadow with no detail. You will loose the features in the character.

* I don't like the stylus!! The grip area hurts my fingers. It's way to small and easy to loose. Sometimes, when I pop it out of the holder it goes flying *weeeeee* across the room, then I am looking for it again!!! Also, it's black, which you can't see! They should of made it Cricut GREEN, with neon lights and a comfy grip and lanyard!

*Obviously the common complaints, Price, Cost of Ink, Cartridges are pricey, not working with the Gypsy or Design Studio YET! (they are working on the Gypsy update).

{ Pros }

* Quick and Easy to whip up a card for that last minute occasion!

* Layering multiplies the images you have to work with. (ex: you can use just the owl, or the dog, or the background as a label, etc...)

*The new glue on the mat is sticky, haven't had paper move on me yet, though I am using a thinner card stock (white, Wal-Mart brand, Best Occasions). I have some Wausau Paper to try out.

So, that is my 2 cents for now!!!!! I hope this may have helped in your decision on buying a Cricut Imagine or in not buying one!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Whew!! Back from an exciting weekend in Birmingham, AL! (Not scrapbook related). But before I left, I posted my #4 Card from World Cardmaking Day/Week/End for the Hero Arts Oct2010a challenge card on Flickr to the Hero Arts Flickr group. This is how you enter their challenges, I got a bunch of comments on Flickr but, I wanted to share the card with all my followers!!!! It is an easy simple card!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Card #3 for World Card Making Day/Week/End is for the Tutti Fruitti Challenge that is happening over at Wee Memories (WMC25)! I really love that the Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge has fruits on it with cute faces! So I went with it! I already had the apple which was pre-cut from somewhere?!?! And when there are faces there should always be GOOGLIE EYES!!!!!!!!! We all know my fascination with googlie eyes!

It was a very productive weekend for World Card Making Day/Week/End! There were several challenges going on and events it was hard to keep up with! My weekend started of with our usual Saturday Scappers at the local Coffeehouse. Got once card finished and another halfway done and taught a fellow scrapper how to use Copic Markers.

On Sunday, Sam from Sam's Scrap Candy came over for a kind of farewell scrapday.. :-( She is moving to SC. Which luckily isn't that far away and I am eager to go on a road trip!! On a happier note we card made our hearts out!! between the two of us we made 8 cards!!! All of them are for challenges that are due this week!

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Graduated from Southeast Center of Photography @ Daytona State College with an A.S. & a B.S. in Photography from University of Central Florida. Photoshop World Alumni, NAPP Member,has a love of things with four wheels and an avid scrapbooker.